Statistical Terms Glossary

A baby who weighs less than 2,500 grams at birth.

Underemployment exists when a person’s employment is inadequate in relation to alternative employment, account being taken of his\her occupational skills. The underemployed persons are classified into two groups:1. Visible Underemployment: which refers to insufficient volume of employment :Persons worked less than 35 hours during the reference week or worked less than the normal hours of work in their occupation were considered as visibly underemployed.2. Invisible Underemployment: refers to a misapplication of labour resources or fundamental imbalance as between labour and other factors of production, such as insufficient income.

Undeveloped or new fishery. Believed to have a significant potential for expansion in total production.

Probability of dying between birth and exact age 5 of a given period. It is expressed as average annual deaths under age 5 per 1,000 live births.

The situation when the value of a plan’s assets are less than its liabilities, thereby having an actuarial deficiency.

Underground production consists of activities that are productive in an economic sense and quite legal (provided certain standards or regulations are complied with), but which are deliberately concealed from public authorities for the following reasons:

a) to avoid the payment of income, value added or other taxes;

b) to avoid payment of social security contributions;

c) to avoid meeting certain legal standards such as minimum wages, maximum hours, safety or health standards, etc;

d) to avoid complying with certain administrative procedures, such as completing statistical questionnaires or other administrative forms.

Security (or other instrument) that must be delivered if an option is exercised.

Refers to the disease or injury that initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death or the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the injury.

Persons whose food intake falls below the minimum requirement or food intake that is insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements continuously.

Human-generated (anthropogenic) noise in the oceans and inshore regions.

This survey method involves divers recording the number and sizes of sea cucumbers along belt transects of the sea floor.

The middleman for selling and distributing securities to investors or the public.

1. Group that agrees with the issuer of securities to buy or find buyers for those securities that are not taken up by the public. 2. Group that buys up an entire issue of securities.

Fee paid in Euroloan to lead banks that underwrite the operation.

Short-term paper facility with an underwriting or backstop facility, such as the note Issuance facility (NIF).

Funds committed by the creditor but not yet utilized by the borrower. In BIS terminology, this refers to open lines of credit that are legally binding on lending banks. A transaction in the balance of payments or a position in the international investment position (IIP) is only recorded when an actual disbursement takes place.